Garrett Borns, known by his stage name B√∏rns, is currently on a very successful tour in support of his second album Blue Madonna. The album got a lot of buzz already, thanks to a little help from Lana Del Rey, who lent her voice and promotion behind the album‚Äôs opening song ‚ÄúGod Save Our Young Blood.‚Äù

Croatian cellists Luka ≈†uliƒá and Stjepan Hauser, known as 2Cellos is bringing The London Symphony Orchestra with them on this tour in support of their new album Score (Portrait/Sony Music Masterworks).

Originally the show was scheduled for October 25, 2017, but there was an unavoidable conflict so they had to move the show to next Thursday, January 25, 2018.

We saw Keifer in 2014 and wrote, ‚ÄúTom Keifer is best known as the lead singer and chief songwriter for 80‚Äôs blues hard rock band Cinderella, but recently released a solo album, The Way Life Goes (Merovee Records/Warner Music) which had been in-the-making for over ten years. Keifer looked like he‚Äôd aged fairly well and almost evenly split his 73 min. set between solo and Cinderella songs, along with a Beatles cover thrown in for good measure.‚Äù

Singer / songwriter
Josh Ritter and his band The Royal City Band will be trekking through North America in support of Ritter‚Äôs new album Gathering (Pytheas Recordings/ Thirty Tigers).

We previously caught Ritter in Feb 2016 and said, ‚ÄúMore than just a lyric from the latest single from Josh Ritter and The Royal City Band, it seemed to also be a mission statement for the evening and Ritter and band‚Äôs buoyant 105 min performance at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis.‚Äù

Two-time Grammy nominated multi-genre music producer,DJ, and rapper Flying Lotus (aka
Steven Ellison) is bringing his new live show ‚ÄúFlying Lotus in 3-D‚Äù to First Avenue next Wednesday.
Seven Davis Jr. (not to be confused with the late Sammy Davis Jr) and PBDY (Paul Preston) to open.

Portland, OR-based Blitzen Trapper is touring in support of Wild & Reckless, the new album born of their staged musical of the same title and also a companion to their 2008 breakthrough album Furr. Lilly Hiatt to open.

Crocodiles is back in town. The last time we saw them at the 7th Street Entry, it was in June 2012 and we wrote, ‚ÄúThe San Diego-based noise-pop band, Crocodiles, brought some amazing energy to their show last night at the Entry despite having just driven all the way from Vancouver where they had played the night before. Early in their set, singer Brandon Welchez joked that they were all pretty stinky and ‚Äúwould trade merch. for Lady Speedstick.‚Äù‚Äù

Queens of the Stone Age are currently on tour for their sixth studio album ...Like Clockwork, out now on Matador Records.
Opening up for Queens will be Chelsea Wolfe, she's currently enjoying touring with Queens of the Stone Age ‚Ä¶

Royal Blood, a new duo comprised of Mike Kerr on lead vocals/bass guitar and Ben Thatcher on drums recently played Mill City Nights in Minneapolis, and showed the attending crowd, what the immediate ‚Ä¶

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
+ Royal Blood
The Roy Wilkins Auditorium
Saturday 10/14/2017 (7pm/$39.50)
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The popular Queens of the Stone Age will be stopping by the Roy Wilkins Auditorium this Saturday in support of their new record Villains (Matador Records). We previously caught the band in 2014 and wrote, ‚ÄúQueens of the Stone Age also went through many musical changes, thanks mostly to their many, many contributors throughout the years (so many musicians involved, it actually has its own mini-section on Wikipedia). In many ways, Queens of the Stone Age is a supergroup republic, currently lead by Josh Homme.‚Äù

Be sure to show up early to check out Royal Blood. We‚Äôve been following this British rock band with their headlining gig in September 2014 (the same year they opened up for The Pixies).

Royal Blood‚Äôs current single ‚ÄòLights Out‚Äô has reached No. 1 on the rock radio chart, this is the band‚Äôs second #1 song (their other hit song is ‚ÄòLittle Monster‚Äô).

With How Did We Get So Dark? already out and debuted #1 on the UK album charts, the band came on the late night talk shows (including Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Late Show with James Corden) to perform their hit single ‚ÄòLights Out‚Äô.

In its tenth year, the Zombie Pub Crawl is at their biggest (and best) lineup so far. Remember the days when you can get into the crawl for free? Kiss that goodbye, because a few years ago, the organizers
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